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From: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: What is my name?
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Date: 22 Jul 89 01:01:59 GMT
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In article <1114@sas.UUCP> toebes@sas.UUCP (John Toebes) writes:
<One thing that seems to be forgotten in this discussion is that it is
<entirely possible that a commands has no 'inherant' path.

No, that's not forgotten. I've been assuming that if there isn't a
file in the file system from which the binary came, you have to give
up. Nothing else to do, and no way around it.

It's also pretty obvious that checking the search path for a file that
matches your name may not return the right name.  But that
approximation is better than nothing. Especially when I want it to
replace similar code for Unix in a port :-).

	<mike
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